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1. 21st-century liberal democracies are a great paradox: They are profoundly powerful, & at same they are largely paralysed & incapable of decisive action or planningThis is because they have
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Corona containment is dozens of different nations around the world doing rain dances. Inevitably it rains somewhere, and the rituals corresponding to that storm are considered an example of the
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THREAD END: This will end my long thread about how Corona went from being a "mild cold" (Christian Drosten at the start of March) to a deadly plague, all in
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MOAR THREAD.Precisely as Lombardy enacted the first western lockdown, media and political discourse in the West moved suddenly from Corona mitigation to mass containment. This happened in a 72-hour period
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THREAD CONT'd. Yesterday, we studied the evolution of Corona reporting from Vox, an important barometer of elite American opinion. Vox downplayed the pandemic in Feb, but adopted alarmist tones suddenly
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THREAD. Western elites revised their estimation of Corona in March. They had, for months, downplayed Corona as a minor, flu-like illness. By mid-month, they had decided it was one of
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1. A better frame: 1918 – 2019 was the century of Influenza A. This era opened with the 1918 pandemic. This represented Influenza A's epochal victory over prior virusesUntil 2019,
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1. Corona appears to have outcompeted influenza in a worldwide pandemic. It will become our new ‘flu’Most people will get corona, sooner or later. More than once. It will mutate
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1. Just as the medical establishment has made us sicker, the press has made us vastly stupider about CoronaAnyone who ignores the news and judges solely on personal experience, will
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1. “Drosten/Fauci/Ferguson [insert your corona tsar here] wouldn’t have ascended to high position if he weren’t good”Bureaucracies don’t select for expertise. They select for people good at exploiting patronage networks,
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1. The medical establishment has made corona orders of magnitude worse than it needed to be. Had we faced corona without epidemiological models, PCR tests or public health interventions, we
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1. Since this thread took off, I’ve read a lot of pro-lockdown content. These are huge twitter networks, dominated by people claiming to be academics, doctors. Their ideas and statements
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